Polish women are already in a difficult position if they’re seeking an abortion. Abortions are outlawed, with exceptions made for cases of incest, rape, badly damaged fetuses and situations where the mother’s life is at risk. Women are forced to travel to neighboring countries or attempt to buy the pills online. The…

In Poland, badass women and men have, and will continue to dress like goths and take to the streets to protest a new law being advanced by Poland’s ruling party, the right-wing PiS (Law and Justice), that would ban all abortions and threaten jail time for women who do not comply. The ban is supported by Prime Minister…

Poland said that it will challenge a 2014 court decision not to extradite the 82-year-old filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States. Reuters reports that Poland’s Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said in an interview on Tuesday that he will appeal the court’s decision and seek Polanski’s extradition.

A Polish court has ruled that Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, 82, who pleaded guilty in 1977 to unlawful sex* with a 13-year-old girl, will not be extradited to the United States over his sex crime conviction.

Roman Polanski is once again fighting extradition to the United States, where he pleaded guilty in 1977 to drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. Polanski fled the United States after serving 42 days in jail, which his lawyers now argue should count as having done his time.

Last week, the Dutch abortion activists of Women on Waves successfully flew a quadcopter carrying abortion-inducing pills into Poland, a country where abortion is virtually outlawed. The drones carried mifepristone and misoprostol, two drugs that have been approved by the World Health Organization since 2005 as a safe…

Winnie the Pooh may seem like a lovable fictional bear, but a Polish town has sen through his headful of bees and innocent love for honey and labeled him as what he really is: A hermaphrodite that sends the wrong message because he doesn't wear pants.

Well, this is unspeakably sad: A Polish couple fell to their deaths while exploring the cliffs at Cabo da Roca, in Portugal, and their children saw it happen. They may have been snapping a selfie and slipped.

A Polish comedian dubbed himself "Boobsman" and filmed a video in which he runs around "protecting the health of women's breasts," i.e. squeezing strangers' boobs on the street. If anyone in a cape felt me up without warning (or with, really) I would not respond by giggling, which is what most of these women do, which…

When photographer Adam Kolodziejczak asked random pedestrians in Bydgoszcz, Poland what song they were listening to, he got some interesting answers. Also, if you put all these songs together, you might have your new favorite workout mix. Or, a workout mix. Whatever, you always need workout mixes.

Although vodka's metaphorically saved my life many a time, Ruski firewater literally rescued two Indian circus elephants from frostbite after the truck in which they were being transported caught fire. Stranded on a highway in freezing Siberia, Russia, the handlers did the only thing they could think of, which was…

In what the Center for Reproductive Rights is calling a “landmark” case, a European Court has ruled that a Polish rape victim who faced obstructionism and misinformation as she tried to obtain a legal abortion had her human rights violated by the state.

Conservative activists in Russia are so mad about Madonna expressing her support for gay rights at a St. Petersburg concert, they're suing her for $10.5 million. If convicted, punishment is eaten by bear.

Coverage of Mitt Romney's hilariously bumbling world tour has been better than coverage of the Olympics, and with even more heartbreak, tears, and disastrous dismounts — that's what makes good television. During today's stop at Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Romney's traveling press secretary responded to…

If you'd just broken up with a dentist, you probably wouldn't go back to her office for help with a toothache a few days later—what with all the sharp objects and opportunities for inflicting pain. And yet, for some reason, that is exactly what Marek Olszewski of Poland did. But rather than get revenge by just being a…